Best Fall Art Exhibits Across North Texas
Many major exhibitions are opening across North Texas in the next few weeks (or have recently opened) as museums kick off their fall seasons. Here's a sampling of the spectacular art on view this fall.
Mark Bradford
October 16, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood - Dallas
(214) 922-1200
Los Angeles-based artist and MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award recipient Mark Bradford will bring his large-scale abstract paintings to the Dallas Museum of Art, as part of a national exhibition that marks the first major survey of his work. The show presents more than 35 works of art. One of the works to look out for is Bradford's new sculpture Detail, a smaller version of Mithra, an ark-like structure he made and displayed in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, the site of the worst destruction from Hurricane Katrina. Read CBSChicago.com's review of Bradford's show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome
October 16, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Kimbell Art Museum
3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard - Fort Worth
(817) 332-8451
This groundbreaking exhibition of 60 paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio explores how one artist deeply impacted European painting—and art history in general—in a relative short career span (less than two decades). Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome traces the artist's development over the course of his residency in Rome, and explores his influence on artists across Europe. According to the Kimbell Art Museum, paintings by Caravaggio will be matched with major works by artists, such as Orazio Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera, Simon Vouet, and Gerrit van Honthorst.
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
September 24, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street - Fort Worth
(817) 738-9215
West coast artist Richard Diebenkorn's most famous body of work is the Ocean Park series, comprised of colorful, geometric abstractions; and this much-buzzed-about, comprehensive exhibition presents more than 75 Ocean Park paintings, prints, and drawings. Covering two decades of Diebenkorn's work, the exhibition showcases some of the earliest works from the series, such as Ocean Park #16, 1968, and will surely delight fans of this illustrious California artist.
Tony Cragg: Seeing Things
September 10, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Nasher Sculpture Center
2001 Flora Street - Dallas
(214) 242-5100
In this first US museum exhibition of the artist in two decades, the Nasher exhibition Tony Cragg: Seeing Things showcases approximately 30 sculptures dating from 1993 to the present. One of Britain's most prolific sculptors, Tony Cragg is known for his cast bronze, steel-forged and stone-carved sculptures, but the exhibition will also feature his rarely seen drawings.
Jennifer Rubell Mannequins
September 25 – December 4, 2011
Dallas Contemporary
161 Glass Street - Dallas
(214) 821-2522
Known for her large-scale pieces featuring edible materials, "food artist" Jennifer Rubell creates artwork that encourages viewers to participate—and eat. In her exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary, life-size mannequins are accompanied by a ton of Texas pecans. The mannequins have been retooled to function as "nutcrackers" and visitors are invited to place a pecan in the mannequin's thigh to the crack the pecan open—and yes, eat the nut.
The Prado at the Meadows: Ribera's Mary Magdalene in a New Context
September 18, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University
5900 Bishop Blvd - Dallas
(214) 768-2516
This year's exhibit at the Prado at the Meadows features another masterpiece from the Museo Nacional del Prado --The Magdalene (1641) by one of seventeenth-century Europe's most influential artists, Jusepe de Ribera. Though this beautiful work will be the focal point of the Meadows' collaboration with the Prado, the exhibition will also feature three Ribera paintings paintings, on loan from international collections.
